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INTERNATIONAL WORLD WIDE CHEMISTRY Large rayon industry planned for Israel expected to make important contribution to country's industrializa- tion . . .Canadian company announces world-wide alumi- num expansion program Τ SRAEL will soon have an $8 million rayon industry if plans for its establishment, now being advanced by the Economic De- partment of trie Jewish Agency in New Vork, go through, according to the agency's mouthpiece, Economic Horizons. T h e venture is to be financed by Oscar Kohorn & Co., Ltd., and other groups of private American and Israel investors. They will be assisted by loans from the Export Bank of Japan and the Israel gov- ernment. The project is still open to pri- vate American investors to the extent of $1 million. The new company recently incorporated in Israel is called United Rayon Corp., Ltd. Plans include establishment of a rayon spinning mill with a daily capacity of 2 tons filament rayon yarn, 5 tons rayon staple, 2 tons rayon tire yarn, and 1.5 tons cellophane. Total annual capacity will amount to some 8.5 million pounds. Far-reaching concessions have been made by the Israel government to the coloration to enable the new industry to become competitive on the world market and to give the foreign investors every reasonable advantage in order to get maxi- mum profits out of their investment. In addition, special foreign exchange con- cessions have been granted to facilitate importation of raw materials, exports of the company's products, and servicing of the company's foreign commitments. The new factory, to be located on a 5-acre tract in Nathanya, will make an important contribution to Israel's indus- trialization. Its production will replace many textile raw materials hitherto im- ported, allowing for substantial savings in foreign exchange. Most of the raw mate- rials will be available from local sources. The only major item to be imported will be wood pulp, for which a long-term ar- rangement has been made with a pro- ducer in the U. S. Sulfuric acid and caustic- soda will be obtained from new chemical factories expected to be in production next fao jZhvaZf·^•••• E T A L A B offers you MORATORY EQUIPMENT WITHIN YOUR BUDGET Let Metalab advise you on • How #o plan your Laboratory for greater efficiency. • How 'nterchangeable Sectional Units are used. • How to get the most for your laboratory budget. Our new modern plant is geared to give you the close cooperation and rapid service you require. Rush your problems to us today! Art/rile for our complete catalog on Laboratory Furniture and Equipment. (ïMïîMïïMMïMÎl ABORATORY FURNITURE and EQUIPMENT by A IL ^ A E 85jjB^3MF^fiJB<B3pZlM|BHB 220 Duffy Ave., Hicksville, L. I., N. Y year in Israel, and the company will manu- facture its own carbon bisulfide. World-Wide Aluminum Expansion Program Announced by Canadian Company Comprehensive details have been re- leased by the Aluminum, Ltd., of Montreal concerning its expansion program in vari- ous parts of the world. Work has started on new bauxite-mining facilities and an alumina-manufacturing plant capable of producing 165,000 metric tons of alumina a year in Jamaica, and this is matched by installation of 450,000 hp. of generating capacity and construction of 83,000 tons of ingot-smelting capacity in British Columbia where the first production of aluminum is planned for early 1954. The present work in Jamaica and British Columbia constitutes the first pivotal stage of a larger scheme which may ultimately yield 1.6 million hp. of electric energy and 500,000 tons of aluminum a year. New bauxite-mining and processing facilities on the Los Islands of French West Africa will absorb 250,000 tons a year of bauxite from 1952, and additional kilns for drying and calcining bauxite will in- crease the importance of the mines in British Guiana. Completion of two new hydroelectric installations on the Peri- bonka River in Quebec is forecast for later this year when as a result exdsting alumi- num-smelting capacity of 420,000 tons in the Saguenay Valley and at Shawinigan Falls will be fully utilized and power will become available for the new 45,000-ton smelter under construction at Isle Maligne. Aluminum production in Quebec, includ- ing Beauharnois, will thereby be raised to approximately 500,000 metric tons at an early date, compared with 405,600 tons in 1951. Additional advances aggregating $40 million are being made by die British government this year and next in return for a first call on an additional 50,000 tons a year of aluminum for 20 years from 1954, making the total first call 250,000 tons a year until 1971. Contracts with the British government provide for delivery of approximately 1 million tons of aluminum ingot during 1952-55, compared with 181,- 600 metric tons in 1951 when 78,500 tons were used in Canada and 93,700 and 48,900 tons, respectively, sent to the U.S.A. and to other countries. Forward contracts with U. S. industrial customers provide for delivery of 246,100 tons between 1952 and 1959, mostly prior to 1957. Aluminum production by subsidiaries and affiliated companies in India, Norway, Sweden, and Italy generally proceeded at capacity levels during the past year, and the idle aluminum smelter of Electro- Quimica Brasileira has been reactivated. A scheme for a fully integrated ingot- producing enterprise on the Gold Coast of West Africa was given further study but is not, apparently, yet ripe for decision. Expansion of fabricating facilities con- tinues in several countries. The large con- tinuous strip-rolling mill of Northern Aluminum Co., Ltd., in England has not 1644 CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING NEWS
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WORLD W I D E CHEMISTRY Large rayon industry p lanned for Israel expected
to make i m p o r t a n t contr ibut ion to country's industrial ization . . . C a n a d i a n c o m p a n y announces w o r l d - w i d e a lumi num expansion p r o g r a m
Τ SRAEL will soon have an $ 8 million rayon industry if plans for its establishment,
now being advanced by the Economic Department of trie Jewish Agency in New Vork, go through, according to the agency's mouthpiece, Economic Horizons.
The venture is to b e financed by Oscar Kohorn & Co., Ltd., and other groups of private American and Israel investors. They will be assisted by loans from the Export Bank of Japan and the Israel government. The project is still open to private American investors to the extent of $1 million.
The new company recently incorporated in Israel is called United Rayon Corp., Ltd. Plans include establishment of a rayon spinning mill with a daily capacity of 2 tons filament rayon yarn, 5 tons rayon staple, 2 tons rayon tire yarn, and 1.5 tons cellophane. Total annual capacity will amount to some 8.5 million pounds.
Far-reaching concessions have been made by the Israel government to the
co lora t ion to enable the new industry to become competitive on the world market and to give the foreign investors every reasonable advantage in order to get maximum profits out of their investment. In addition, special foreign exchange concessions have been granted to facilitate importation of raw materials, exports of the company's products, and servicing of the company's foreign commitments.
The new factory, to be located on a 5-acre tract in Nathanya, will make an important contribution to Israel's industrialization. Its production will replace many textile raw materials hitherto imported, allowing for substantial savings in foreign exchange. Most of the raw materials will be available from local sources. The only major item to be imported will be wood pulp, for which a long-term arrangement has been made with a producer in the U. S. Sulfuric acid and caustic-soda will be obtained from new chemical factories expected to be in production next
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year in Israel, and the company will manufacture its own carbon bisulfide.
World-Wide Aluminum Expansion Program Announced by Canadian Company
Comprehensive details have been released by the Aluminum, Ltd., of Montreal concerning its expansion program in various parts of the world. Work has started on new bauxite-mining facilities and an alumina-manufacturing plant capable of producing 165,000 metric tons of alumina a year in Jamaica, and this i s matched by installation of 450,000 hp. o f generating capacity and construction of 83,000 tons of ingot-smelting capacity in British Columbia where the first production of aluminum is planned for early 1954. The present work in Jamaica and British Columbia constitutes the first pivotal stage of a larger scheme which may ultimately yield 1.6 million hp. of electric energy and 500,000 tons of aluminum a year.
New bauxite-mining and processing facilities on the Los Islands of French West Africa will absorb 250,000 tons a year of bauxite from 1952, and additional kilns for drying and calcining bauxite will increase the importance of the mines in British Guiana. Completion of two new hydroelectric installations on the Peri-bonka River in Quebec is forecast for later this year when as a result exdsting aluminum-smelting capacity of 420,000 tons in the Saguenay Valley and at Shawinigan Falls will be fully utilized and power will become available for the new 45,000-ton smelter under construction at Isle Maligne. Aluminum production in Quebec, including Beauharnois, will thereby be raised to approximately 500,000 metric tons at an early date, compared with 405,600 tons in 1951.
Additional advances aggregating $40 million are being made by die British government this year and next in return for a first call on an additional 50,000 tons a year of aluminum for 20 years from 1954, making the total first call 250,000 tons a year until 1971. Contracts with the British government provide for delivery of approximately 1 million tons of aluminum ingot during 1952-55, compared with 181,-600 metric tons in 1951 when 78,500 tons were used in Canada and 93,700 and 48,900 tons, respectively, sent to the U.S.A. and to other countries. Forward contracts with U. S. industrial customers provide for delivery of 246,100 tons between 1952 and 1959, mostly prior to 1957.
Aluminum production by subsidiaries and affiliated companies in India, Norway, Sweden, and Italy generally proceeded at capacity levels during the past year, and the idle aluminum smelter of Electro-Quimica Brasileira has been reactivated. A scheme for a fully integrated ingot-producing enterprise on the Gold Coast of West Africa was given further study but is not, apparently, yet ripe for decision. Expansion of fabricating facilities continues in several countries. The large continuous strip-rolling mill o f Northern Aluminum Co., Ltd., in England has not
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yet reached full production because primary aluminum supplies were limited. The sheet-rolling facilities in South Africa --were more than doubled last year, new rolling mills came into use in Mexico, and fabricating plants in Norway and Denmark -were expanded. A new sheet mill arid extrusion plant is being built in Brazil.
Total expenditure on plant expansion last year amounted to $120 million and another $240 million is to be spent i n the current and the next two years.
The Quebec power and ingot expansion program alone will cost $110 million, the first phase program in British Columbia $195 million.
Construction Starts on Brazilian Plant Addition
Construction has started on the expansion of Brazil's first modern refinery which was built in 1950 at Mataripe, Bahia. The? M. W. Kellogg Co. designed both, the new and original facilities. Kellogg Pan American Corp. is supervising construction.
The expansion will double the capacity of the present 2500-barrel-per-day combination thermal refinery. It wil l also include catalytic polymerization which will raise the over-all octane rating of the finished gasoline, as well as facilities for production of liquefied petroleum gas. Since Brazil's crude has thus far proved to be "sweet," the only prepolymerization treating step will be caustic washing to remove the small amount of sulfa χ remaining in the gaseous charge stock.
Modifications in the original plant, built for Conselho National do Petroleo., are being made to process the lighter exudes which are now available from local fields in the area. Flexibility has been stressed in both the new design and the revamp, so that the integrated plant will b e ab>le to run any of the local crudes.
The completed plant will include topping, vis-breaking, thermal reforming and cracking, stabilization, and light ends recovery, in addition to the cat poly, caustic treating, and liquefied petroleum gas facilities.
Clinical Research on TB Conducted in Latin America
Air shipments of Dinacrm, antituberculosis drug of Winthrop Products, Inc., have been made to Latin American countries for clinical testing in hospitals, Dina-crin ( brand of isonicotinyl hydrazide ) has been sent to Venezuela for clinical research purposes under the supervision of the Ministry of Public Health.
Other air shipments have been made to Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, and Mexico for the same purpose. Additional supplies for clinical research are being made available to other countries in South and Central America.
C&EN Foreign Correspondent Contributing to This Issue:
C. ABRAHAALSON, Canada
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